ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 25275

Jackson County, West Virginia: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.

Data updated 2026-08-24

184
Violent rate /100K (county)
1,865
Population (ZIP)
90
Property rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 25275 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 25275 sits within Jackson County, WV, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Jackson County's reported crime sits somewhat below the national average: 184 violent and 90 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.

ZIP 25275 carries a Census-reported population of 1,865, ranking #5 of 11 ZIPs in Jackson County, spread across 60.33 square miles (about 31 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Jackson County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Jackson County crime page linked below.

ZIP 25275 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The violent-led county proxy above is from Jackson County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 25275 Census context

These are ZIP/ZCTA demographic estimates, separate from the county-level FBI proxy above. They describe the local settlement, not a crime rate.

Median household income
$62,774
Median age
40.7 years
Owner-occupied homes
87%
Occupied homes
781

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).

How useful is the county proxy for ZIP 25275?

Within the participating-agency records for Jackson County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 48% below and property crime is 95% below. The two submitted measures point in the same direction, but they do not establish complete county coverage or turn the result into a ZIP-level rating for 25275. Both comparisons use the same 2024 county reporting population and FBI-submitted counts, so the two directions are internally comparable for this release, not evidence about a different year.

25275 is comparatively spread out at about 31 people per square mile. That settlement pattern may differ sharply from the county's population centers, another reason to use the county rates as regional context rather than a local estimate.

Jackson County UCR book ZIP 25275 inherits

ZIP 25275 itself is about 31 people per Census sq mi across 60.3 sq mi (1,865 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 25275 accounts for roughly 6.7% of the county reporting population (1,865 of 27,791).

Jackson County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in aggravated assault (61% of 76 offenses; mix index 4,193). ZIP 25275 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Jackson County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +42% vs 2023; property counts +14% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Jackson County offense mix (2024)

Mix index is HHI × 10,000 on county offense-type shares. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero; still county-agency data, not a ZIP-native FBI table.

Nationwide peers for ZIP 25275

Similar county violent rate (~184/100K)

Similar Census population (~1,865)

County detail: Jackson County · State atlas: West Virginia

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau (ZIP population, land area, 2020 ZCTA-to-county relationship file, ACS 5-year estimates) and FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, Crime in the United States (CIUS) Table 10 (county-level crime, attributed via ZIP-to-county crosswalk).

Verify with Census.gov Geography and FBI.gov UCR.

Read our methodology , how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page combines Census ZIP-level figures with a ZIP-to-county crosswalk to attribute FBI UCR crime data honestly, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.